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Şafran, Chief-Rabbi of Romania between 1940-47, recalls his struggle, as a member of the Senate, against antisemitic legislation and discriminatory measures. Describes the pogroms in Bucharest (January 1941) and Iaşi (June 1941), the massacre of thousands of Jews from Bessarabia and Bukovina in 1941, and the deportation of Jews to Transnistria. Gives details on his meetings with Romanian leaders ...

The letter, addressed to Susan Tabue, was written in Hamburg, Germany by Margarete Jacobson. The letter reveals the fate of Susan Taube’s mother and sister, Bertha and Hilde Strauss.

The Maxime Steinberg archives are essentially composed of thematic files containing copies of original archival documents, copies of periodicals and scientific literature assembled by Steinberg within the framework of his historical research. 11 boxes are related to the Comité de Défense des Juifs and the Association des Juifs en Belgique; some contain original archival material. 13 boxes consist of ...

The Evreiskii Komitet Pomoshchi Zhertvam Voiny (EKOPO) (Jewish Committee for the Assistance to the War Victims) was established in Russia in 1914. This organization provided necessary assistance and relief to tens of thousands of Jewish families who were displaced by Russian Tsarist government from Lithuania and Belarus during WWI. After WWI, the organization (under the Polish name, the Krajowy Komitet ...

"[This book] is the first cultural history of the 'witness to genocide' in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s, covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies ...

A chronology of the measures taken by the Nazi authorities in Berlin between 1933-45 against the Jews, based on material collected for the exhibition "Jüdische Geschichte in Berlin" in 1995. Stresses the active participation of the municipality, which influenced and accelerated the planning of discriminatory steps. Surveys the gradual deterioration of the situation of the Jews: the boycott, the Nuremberg ...

Kuttner family: Dagobert (1877-1953), Waldemar (born 1881) and Emil (born 1885) Kuttner were the sons of a Polish Jewish merchant family. Dagobert married Margot Scholz (born 1879), Waldemar married Gertrud Loewy (1885-1944) and Emil married her sister Cäcilie Loewy (born in 1888). During the First World War the brothers fought at the front line.<br> <br>The Kuttners worked as successful iron ware ...

Memoirs of a Jew born in 1926 in Schmallenberg, near Dortmund. Many Schmallenbergers in official positions were in the SS; after the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, in which the synagogue was destroyed, they forced the family to "sell" them all its property. Frankenthal, his father, and his brother Ernst were sent to a nearby labor camp. In March 1943 the family was deported to Auschwitz. The parents were ...

In Germany, forced labor as a component of a new strategy of persecution was discussed in fall 1938, and applied in the entire Reich after the "Kristallnacht" pogrom. 190,000 Jews lived in Austria at the time, 90% of them in Vienna. The persecution of Austrian Jews was executed with particular violence. Terror, confiscation of Jewish property, arbitrary Aryanization, and mass dismissals characterized ...

Contains both a diary and memoirs of a Holocaust survivor, born in Vienna in 1920. The diary (pp. 1-57), originally written in German, covers the events of 1938; it was first published in the form of a booklet called "In die Emigration" (Vienna: J & V Edition, 1988). It was here translated by Christa Faeser. The memoirs (pp. 59-164), written in the 2000s in Dutch, cover the period 1939-45. The diary ...